Becoming a Woman of Letters : : Myths of Authorship and Facts of the Victorian Market / / Linda H. Peterson.
During the nineteenth century, women authors for the first time achieved professional status, secure income, and public fame. How did these women enter the literary profession; meet the demands of editors, publishers, booksellers, and reviewers; and achieve distinction as "women of letters"...
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Peterson, Linda H., author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Becoming a Woman of Letters : Myths of Authorship and Facts of the Victorian Market / Linda H. Peterson. Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2021] ©2009 1 online resource (312 p.) : 28 halftones. text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Contents -- List of illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 THE NINETEENTH-CENTURY PROFESSION OF LETTERS AND THE WOMAN AUTHOR -- 2 INVENTING THE WOMAN OF LETTERS Harriet Martineau in the Literary Marketplace of the 1820s and 1830s -- 3 WORKING COLLABORATIVELY Mary Howitt and Anna Mary Howitt as Women of Letters -- 4 PARALLEL CURRENTS The Life of Charlotte Bronte¨ as Mid-Victorian Myth of Women's Authorship -- 5 CHALLENGING BRONTE¨ AN MYTHS OF AUTHORSHIP Charlotte Riddell and A Struggle for Fame (1883) -- 6 TRANSFORMING THE POET Alice Meynell as Fin-de-Siécle Englishwoman of Letters -- 7 THE WOMAN OF LETTERS AND THE NEW WOMAN Reinventing Mary Cholmondeley -- Notes -- Index restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star During the nineteenth century, women authors for the first time achieved professional status, secure income, and public fame. How did these women enter the literary profession; meet the demands of editors, publishers, booksellers, and reviewers; and achieve distinction as "women of letters"? Becoming a Woman of Letters examines the various ways women writers negotiated the market realities of authorship, and looks at the myths and models women writers constructed to elevate their place in the profession. Drawing from letters, contracts, and other archival material, Linda Peterson details the careers of various women authors from the Victorian period. Some, like Harriet Martineau, adopted the practices of their male counterparts and wrote for periodicals before producing a best seller; others, like Mary Howitt and Alice Meynell, began in literary partnerships with their husbands and pursued independent careers later in life; and yet others, like Charlotte Brontë, and her successors Charlotte Riddell and Mary Cholmondeley, wrote from obscure parsonages or isolated villages, hoping an acclaimed novel might spark a meteoric rise to fame. Peterson considers these women authors' successes and failures--the critical esteem that led to financial rewards and lasting reputations, as well as the initial successes undermined by publishing trends and pressures. Exploring the burgeoning print culture and the rise of new genres available to Victorian women authors, this book provides a comprehensive account of the flowering of literary professionalism in the nineteenth century. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Aug 2021) LITERARY CRITICISM / Women Authors. bisacsh Ackermann (publisher). Agent (literary). Ashton, Rosemary. Athenaeum. Battersby, Christine. Beetham, Margaret. Bluestockings. Bourdieu, Pierre. Brontë, Patrick. Browning, Robert. Byronism and Byromania. Chatterton, Thomas. Chorley, Henry. Cornhill Magazine. David, Deirdre. Disraeli, Benjamin. Dyce, Alexander. Eclectic Magazine. Edgeworth, Maria. Emerson, Ralph Waldo. Ewing, Juliana. Fisher, Judith. Fortnightly Review. Gallagher, Catherine. Genius (literary). Goethe, Johann Wolfgang. Gubar, Susan. Henley, William Ernest. Household Words. Illustrated London News. Kaleidoscope. Langham Place Group. Maidment, Brian. Mermin, Dorothy. National Review. Oliphant, Margaret. Onslow, Barbara. Orchardson, William Quiller. Patmore, Coventry. Pope, Alexander. Quarterly Review. Reviews and reviewers. Sala, George Augustus. Talfourd, Thomas Noon. Thompson, Francis. Vicinus, Martha. Ward and Downey (publisher). Wollstonecraft, Mary. Yates, Edmund. Yellow Book. Youngkin, Molly. https://doi.org/10.1515/9781400833252?locatt=mode:legacy https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781400833252 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/cover/covers/9781400833252.jpg |
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Peterson, Linda H., Peterson, Linda H., Becoming a Woman of Letters : Myths of Authorship and Facts of the Victorian Market / Contents -- List of illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 THE NINETEENTH-CENTURY PROFESSION OF LETTERS AND THE WOMAN AUTHOR -- 2 INVENTING THE WOMAN OF LETTERS Harriet Martineau in the Literary Marketplace of the 1820s and 1830s -- 3 WORKING COLLABORATIVELY Mary Howitt and Anna Mary Howitt as Women of Letters -- 4 PARALLEL CURRENTS The Life of Charlotte Bronte¨ as Mid-Victorian Myth of Women's Authorship -- 5 CHALLENGING BRONTE¨ AN MYTHS OF AUTHORSHIP Charlotte Riddell and A Struggle for Fame (1883) -- 6 TRANSFORMING THE POET Alice Meynell as Fin-de-Siécle Englishwoman of Letters -- 7 THE WOMAN OF LETTERS AND THE NEW WOMAN Reinventing Mary Cholmondeley -- Notes -- Index |
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Contents -- List of illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 THE NINETEENTH-CENTURY PROFESSION OF LETTERS AND THE WOMAN AUTHOR -- 2 INVENTING THE WOMAN OF LETTERS Harriet Martineau in the Literary Marketplace of the 1820s and 1830s -- 3 WORKING COLLABORATIVELY Mary Howitt and Anna Mary Howitt as Women of Letters -- 4 PARALLEL CURRENTS The Life of Charlotte Bronte¨ as Mid-Victorian Myth of Women's Authorship -- 5 CHALLENGING BRONTE¨ AN MYTHS OF AUTHORSHIP Charlotte Riddell and A Struggle for Fame (1883) -- 6 TRANSFORMING THE POET Alice Meynell as Fin-de-Siécle Englishwoman of Letters -- 7 THE WOMAN OF LETTERS AND THE NEW WOMAN Reinventing Mary Cholmondeley -- Notes -- Index |
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